The little people in Penang

The employees knew that something was coming, because a while ago, an earlier batch of employees was retrenched by the company (identity hidden) already. So there were rumours that more people would be retrenched or outsourced, but nobody knew exaclty, who would be affected and when it was their turn to leave.

Then management came and called the employees into a meeting room. The employees were simply told that their job was no more. The employees were asked to clean their tables, given a plastic bag, to put their private stuff in and then come back to the room for further details. Time given to do the clean-up - 30 minutes.

Suddenly they were out, in the cold. After so many years of working for the same company, they lost their job. 25 years, 20 years or even "only" 7 years or 5 years.

Losing the job that they thought was theirs for life.

Their colleagues only realised what has happened when they wondered why their colleagues didn't come back. The employees, now retrenched, were told that there were coaches that would help them to draft their resume.

Things that happen in Penang and this is were I came in.

I was in Penang for two days and had to coach a couple of those employees on how to get started in the job market. I wasn't alone as there were at least 5 of us, hired for the job by a company specialised in getting people back onto the feet and into the job market or become entrepreneurs. It is a great effort and a great company - when I lost my job a longer while ago, they also helped me. This outplacement company was hired by the retrenching company to perform the job and help the employees for a couple of weeks.

A look into the eyes of the participants revealed their desparation. Their heads down, voice low, no hope anywhere in their system. They had never written any resume, some of them never had any other job. The road ahead looked pitch dark. How to find a job, when you are over 50, and worked 25 years in the same company?

I started my work and realised quickly, that all that I wanted to say and had prepared didn't make any sense to those guys. Way too high level, way ahead of their educational background. These were the "little people", those that are often steamrolled by the economic train when things turn the wrong way.

I had to change things, on the spot. Had to talk their language, which was tougher than I thought. I saw that manytimes, I did not make sense, so I had to revamp my message. I was learning. But here I was, a Mat Salleh, trying to teach the participants on how to find out, now, what they were good at in their job. It was not difficult and took a long time. But we linked up and connected, and they started to laugh, and participated. Still, after a while, they got silent again. Sad eyes, the twitch at their mouth back again.

And we got there, in the end. It felt so good to see the first draft of resumes.

We also talked about communication, and what to do in an interview. We conducted mock interviews. This was hard for some. They were stumpling and it was easy to see how nervous and uncertain they were. One of them, the oldest, nearly started to cry.

The team had organised that some executives from a recruitment agency would come by. Two young executives and here they were. Fast in their actions, and direct in their questions. "Prepare your resume and send it to us." So easy to say, but no understanding of my guys!! Lucky these guys were somewhat ready then already.

I am back now, and hope that I made an impact.

I am waiting for their resumes to check and correct it.

I had a reality check, these last few days and that was a major learning for me.

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Asia Mind Dynamics - New Courses Are Starting

I can get back to my old saying - are you serious about change?

And, if you want to change, why not learn to use the planet's most advanced technology on human communication, called NLP or neuro linguistic programming.

Hey - we all "do" NLP every day - day in and day out, in our "normal life"? We communicate, don't we not? We talk to others, we have great conversations and sometimes bad ones. We are leading teams, sometimes perfectly and hamoniously, sometimes lesser so. We have great sales situations and sometimes, we simply don't get on with the buyer (or may be even us?) and don't sell.

Hmmm!!!

Want to know how it works? The processes behind what is going on in your mind and how to improve the processes? Well, it is so easy, so extremely easy to accelerate in whatever you do. Because, all you need to do is to change the way you are thinking, or better, the way, how you represent information inside of you. Hey - I am not talking positive thinking here, but the style how you operate.

What is your thinking, your feeling, for example, when you go into a sales situation? Do you think, "Gee, I don't want to mess up this sale, like I did last time!" or do you think "finally, this is the sale that I am waiting for, and I am going to get it."

If you are aligned in your thoughts, visuals, inner self-talk and feelings, and assume a physiology of excellence, then you will succeed. Easily, and effortlessly!!!

Want to know how?

Well, Asia Mind Dynamics is organising these great seminars from March to May 2007:

1.) Personal Excellence – Accelerate your life with NLP - March 24-25, 2007 (Weekend) and March 29-30
(Thurs & Fri)

Introductory Price - RM688 (normal price RM1,488)

2.) Leading Magically –Accelerate your leadership skills with NLP - April 7-8 (Weekend)

Early Bird Investment: RM988 (until March 24th)
(normal price RM1,488)

3.) Selling Magically – Accelerate your sales with NLP - April 14-15 (Weekend)
Early Bird Investment: RM988 (until March 31th)
(normal price RM1,488)

4.) NLP Certified Practitioner Course - April 30-May 4, and May 7-11 (10 days for a Certified NLP Practitioner)
Early Bird - RM5,800 (until April 8)

So, download the registration form now, and book your seat.

Training Schedule 1st Quarter

For more details on the different programs, click here:


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Congratulations to all graduates of the Certified NLP Practitioner Course of Asia Mind Dynamics

Last Sunday was the day of Asia Mind Dynamics and the participants that came out of my NLP Certified Practitioner Course. 8 days, four weekends, and we got closer to each other, through offsite meetings, onside discussions and exercises.

We all were stretched, in breaking our habits, learning new patterns and understanding of how to run our brain and, ultimately, our life.

No more excuses for having a lack of energy, lacking motivation or coming late. Guys, you are AT CAUSE for your life.

We started the 8 days by stating, that this will be the best training that the participants ever had - and we achieved it!!!!!

They were ready for change, because .... they were there. This contrasted many that said, yeah, I have to change, I will come, and I want to take control of my life.

These guys were there, and they succeeded - brilliantly!

It was exhilarating for the participants. Last Sunday was their day - they had their "examinations", or demonstration. This happened by showing their skills in exercises to the trainer - me :)

They performed magnificently, all of them.

Congratulations to Michael C., Michael H., Nora H., Najwa D, Jasmine R., and Margaret T. I am proud of you!



I was very surprised to received a present as well - a pointer. Great - because well, you know why :)




More pictures can be found here.

Some comments from the participants:

"Andreas has the enthusiasm for his subject that explodes into your subconscious mind and really makes NLP real for me. I recommend this training for everyone who already thinks that they are great – because they will realise just how much better they will be.”

or:

“Your passion and drive is extremely powerful and empowering. I enjoyed the classes.”

Wow - I am so proud. It was a great moment, to sign your certificates.

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Motivation- and Leadership Training

Ahhh - that's me!!

Explaining motivation
What actually is motivation?
Installing a State of Mind into neurology, so that you are always motivated, confident, energised, anything, whenever you need it.
This is so, so, so important and NLP teaches you that you can have any state you want, at the snap of a finger!

Award Ceremony

Goal Setting Training

Explaining processes - there is nothing more important than explaining exercises or proccesses so that participants really "get the way of doing it". This means they will go out into the "real world" after the training and understand how to apply the learning straight away!

Embedding your goals into the neurology - a simple, fun but very empowering exercise
Visualising your goals - this exercise shows the power of the mind

Interested in an initial conversation with me, about coaching or training? Please send an e-mail to nlp AT AsiaMindDynamics.com or call me (Andreas) at 6-012-287 50 48.

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A race of my own

I am working on my own, currently, or, if you want, with my wife, who is a certified hypnotherapist.

Then, I have a couple of friends with whom I also plan to conduct trainings with, such as the one last week. We also submitted a proposal to a very big organisation in Malaysia and were shortlisted - which is one great success story.

What I want to say, however, is that now, since I have my own business, things are really great and crazy, in all ways possible.

Many, many things to do, from organising tax payments, marketing, tracking of leads, developing material, meeting people, writing proposals, creating templates for letters, invoices and similar. I shouldn't forget blogging, of course. There is much, much more, but boy, this is a 8 days a week job.

Fun so and I wanted it that way, right?

The major difference is that I am stirring the wheel - so I can browse the web when I want, or call, when I want.

How does it feel? Well, last week, I started to think of it as Monopoly Game. You know the game, right? Well, I loved to play the game when I was way, way younger, about 200 or 300 years back. I loved to win, and in fact, I might say that the game developed my competitive streak in me. It was nice to win, and to own the places that I wanted.

Of course, this is different now, since I am dealing with real time events and people or organisations. As mentioned earlier, this is a beautiful business, with beauty shown when people and organisations tranform magnificently. This feels like I have bought a hotel in Monopoly, and someone just steps onto the place.

It simply feels great, to see something, that is called Asia Mind Dynamics grow. And still, there is so much to do. I keep you posted.

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Nearly a month!

... Nearly a month since I posted my last entry. This shows how busy I have become. incredibly busy, but it is beautiful!!



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It is so great when friends become really, really successful. so successful that they turn up in the newspaper, in fact.

I met Emma James during my training in Sydney in October last year. She is a World Champion Powerlifter, a title that she hold for numerous years. Hey, we had fun, talking, exchanging ideas, studying and training together.

Once we both succeeded in our training, we went out, together with the whole gang that was there with us, to celebrate.

Here are the results of this outing:

(Evan, Emma and me)

It is fun to carry a world champion, hehe. So here is another one, also showing her humour.

(Evan, Emma and me)
But it doesn't last long, because, well, she really is strong!!!


(Emma carrying me!!!)She nowadays trains athletes, and shares her knowledge with others in her NLP Training classes in the UK.

A fun lady, but very, very dedicated to the success of those that she works with. I am hoping that she is, one day, visiting me in Malaysia, so that she can share her knowledge with Malaysian athletes as well. Because, hey, NLP is great for use in sport as well - anybody out there reading this from the sports world in Malaysia?

By chance, I found the article copied below - all the best Emma - I am going to send you the link to this entry!

"World Champion Teaches her Secrets

World Champion Athlete and NLP Trainer reveals her secrets to the World!

[ClickPress, Sat Jan 13 2007] World Champion Powerlifter, Emma James, is beginning a new course to teach other athletes, managers and coaches the secrets of her success.

As an NLP (neuro linguistic programmer) Trainer, she applied many of the techniques she learnt as a successful therapist to her own training and not only took World Titles but also world records. Now, after successes with her own performance and those of her clients she has applied the pure sports application to the normal NLP Practitioner course and is about to launch this to the world.

“I am completely happy now with the results these techniques have produced for individuals and teams and am ready to incorporate it into a course. Managers and coaches that have used these techniques as well have had true success and I hold enough World Records now not to worry about my competition learning my techniques!” Emma said.

The first of the NLP Sports Practitioner courses are to be held in Dubai in February and then the premier UK course in May. For further information about Emma James see www.stimulus.webeden.co.uk also email her for coaching or competing advice."

Click here to get to the original article.

Last Last few days to register for the Certified NLP Practitioner Course in January/ February if you are serious about change - in this course, you will learn more about the workings of the conscious and the unconscious mind.

Places are still available. Register now by faxing in the registration form available in the brochure.

Or call at 012-287 50 48 to check for more information.

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NLP Training - After the training is completed

Ah - there is a time when any training is completed. And then most of the time, reality (whatever that is) sets in. While the beauty of NLP is that it really helps people to change - change on the conscious and unconscious level with greater understanding for self and others - people around the participants haven't changed.

Sadly, many training outcomes are set in a way that they are not very effective - okay, something always sticks with the participants, but often, the learning is quickly forgotten. This happens for a variety of reasons.

One is that the transition back into the normal life is not smoothened. This is difficult in a personal development training, but also in a corporate setting. Coming Monday morning, many participants come back to work, see that the e-mail inbox is full and then, decide to postpone the implementation of the new learning for a day or two.

However, in most cases, the learning is forgotten when not applied immediately. I read a number that 85% of the training effect is lost in such cases. I am not sure if there are numbers for those that participate on their own without corporate sponsorship.

Another reason is that trainings are often conducted to change behaviours. But to change behaviours is not that easy, if the unconscious mind is not integrated. Only if learning is integrated on the conscious and unconsious mind is learning long lasting (something that you get when you train with Asia Mind Dynamics!).

People around those that participated in an NLP training realise that participants coming from NLP courses have changed dramatically. Mostly, participants discover new choices, or develop new pathways in their life. Many participants change their jobs for the better, develop better relationships with loved ones and those around them, gain the promotion that they desired, have a clear picture of the future and more.

But not all and sometimes, it simply is tough to retain the path of change. As much as those participants want to be at Cause for their life and create the results in their life that they desire, the reality can be grinding. An NLP course gives you plenty of tools to operate in a "normal world" (may be it is the crazy world) .

What then can be done?

Well, there are a couple of great, great advantages to go with Asia Mind Dynamics. I will organise regular meetings with all those that participated in the training, there will be online discussion groups, and we will be able to exchange ideas via e-mail, chat boxes or even mobile phones.

If a refresher is needed, I will organise one - for either the individual or the group. Over time, there will be a monthly meeting with those that went through my training, to support each other and learn from each other.

Basically, it is about learning together on how to apply what has been learnt to the real life, to change your life and influence those around you positively. Because, we want to create a world that is worthwhile living in and contributing, right?/

So get the insight now - here is the outline of the brochure and then sign up!
Or, send a mail to NLP AT AsiaMindDynamics.com for more inquiries.

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Stress and Christmas shopping

Malaysia is on sale, once again. And sure enough, it coincidences with Christmas. The queues in front of the shopping malls are huge, and disoriented shoppers walk dazily around, eyes wide open.

Many appear stressed, and now before the final, final weekend before Christmas, expect chaos. I will be one who is going to buy some presents for my boy on Saturday. He wants some Play Station Games (Star Wars), a new football, and a bicycle.

I am already not the nicest shopper during normal shopping days but now, with Christmas music blaring, promoters hassling, too many people pushing and shoving, wow, can I not feel pity with myself? I call it sensory overload, and that it surely is. You are entrenched in noise, visual teasers, and just the enclosures with too many people close by.

Well, it is the end-goal that I keep in mind. My boy's smile on the face, when he opens the presents. Of course he now knows that Santa Claus is actually is Papa, so there is no surprise on that side anymore.

A healthy mental attitude is healthy to start with - I play it out in the back of my mind, what I want, where I want it and then, be very determined in what I really want, in order not to be distracted too often.

I attempt to be in the mall at the earliest, to avoid being trapped in one of the huge traffic jams. And then, I entice myself as well with a short visit to the residential bookshop or a coffee. As an additional incentive.

Will I stay cool? Well, I hope and believe I am not heating up inside. I will be doing fine :).

How are you coping with the stress during Christmas shopping?

But once again, I am amazed by the amount of tools that I have at hand after I learnt NLP.

My upcoming NLP course still has places free - so register now to secure your seat now - download the brochure for the registration form . Send me a mail at NLP AT AsiaMindDynamics.com for more information.

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NLP Certification Program and Trainer Profile

I just published the brochure of the NLP Certification Program in Kuala Lumpurt at the right side of this blog, plus my profile.

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The lost customer - will they ever return?

Recently, I went for lunch to Madam Kwan in KLCC. Madam Kwan, as most of you know, is one Malaysian restaurant with great, great food. The problem (is it one?) with such great places is that they are packed over lunch time. So, if you don't book a place, well, you better have time to wait.

I had a booking for me and friends, but I was there a bit too early. So I could watch the crowd gathering outside. Some were pretty tense, because they couldn't really see their bookings in the book, others were more astonished about the number of people already waiting. A third group was waiting patiently and silently.

The waiter attending to the waiting guests tried hard, but trying is not good enough for some. Especially, since the poor guy had to leave the door and check with his colleagues in the back about tables, I assume, and then come back to the front.

In the time that he was gone, no one was there to attend to the waiting guests - and more came. So there was room for impatience.

Some guests waiting went away, saying, that it takes too long and that they go over to Little Penang, another restaurant. Clearly, there are also queues in front of Little Penang, but I am not focussing on this right now.

The question here is, of course - will those customers ever return? How will they talk about their waiting experience to friends, neighbours, other colleagues? Such events are lasting events for some, while others browse over it easily.

However, every lost customer is lost business - a business that might not return, anymore!

So what can be done? Better management of the waiting list, for sure. Don't let the guests alone - always have someone to entertain them, or be ready to entertain them.

The guy attending to the customers looked stressed, and it was a stressful environment. So give him something that motivates him, immediately, and on the spot - ha, of course I talk about the magic of NLP here :)

Also, understand the individuality of customers. Every customer is different and wants to be treated differently. So train your people to be able to identify the different characteristics of customers, and treat customers the way they want to be treated. Rapport building, for one, is one great way in doing this, subconsciously!


Again, I am promoting my training here, of course, and again, this is something that we are going to talk about in intensity during the training. How to identify the different types of customers and be able to serve them in the way that entertains them most appropriately, so that, in the end, the level of complaints get reduced and you get a reputation even better than the current one. Which, in turn, increases sales. Great, what?


So join me now, okay?

Here are some details!

Just send me a mail to NLP AT asiaminddynamics.com and we take it from there, okay?

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Eye patterns, customer orientation and decision making strategies

This now is a bit of an advanced NLP topic, but I am in the mood to write about it.

I believe that all of us have realised that when we look at people, they move their eyes, in all directions. It might look like it is a wild goose chase going on, but hey, when people move their eyes, they are actually doing something inside their head.

Now this has been a bit of a contentious topic over the years, with some groups saying that it is nonsense, and others, that it is a workable "technique". I think that if it works for you, it is fine, and if some believe it doesn't work, well, they will come around, sooner or later, okay?

Because, fact is, we all move our eyes.

Talk to people, ask them questions, and look at them, how they move their eyes - and you will see that they do!
Now, basically, there are six quadrants as you can see in the chart.

Vc - which stands for Visual Construct - people construct pictures in their head that they haven't seen before
Vr - which stands for Visual Recall or Remember - people access pictures from their memory,

Ac - which stands for Auditory Construct - people construct sounds, that they haven't heard before
Ar - which stands for Auditory Recall or Remember - people access sounds from their memory,
K - which stands for Kinesthetic - people access their feelings
Ad - which stands for Auditory digital or self-talk - people access information.


(Borrowed, with gratitude, from Renewal CA)


Now, listen - in many NLP books it is written that this is how you access your own different quadrants, but hey - I am teaching you that this is how it is when you are looking at the other person.

Why?

Because people access or construct information inside their head and it goes very, very fast. What they are doing is formulating their way of action - how do they do what they do. You want to know what is going on inside their head, not inside your own head, for that matter.

Complicated?

Not really.

You can use the information, on which quadrant people access to identify how they motivate themselves, how they make decision, and how they reassure themselves that they have made the right choice.

Wow, that is great, because, well, you now can look people into the eyes, and know what they want, how they want it and how they are assured of what they got.

Imagine, you can use this to build rapport with people, and serve them better. Because instead of being the pushy salesperson, who is coming from the wrong end of town, you simply know how to sell according to how people want their stuff. What customer orientation is that? What great sales strategy!

Just by looking into their eyes.

Now, wasn't there a movie, where oen actor was saying - "look into my eyes, baby"? Gives a whole new meaning.

These eye patterns elicitation is something I am going to teach in the NLP Certified Practitioner Course in January/ February 2007. I will provide much more detail, and we have a couple of great exercises around it, so that you are able to really use it in your day to day life. So why don't you join me?

Just send me a mail to NLP AT asiaminddynamics.com and we take it from there, okay?

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NLP Certified Practitioner Course in Kuala Lumpur: Course Benefits

Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP, due to its nature, touches all areas of humans and the environment. This is because we all have a subconscious mind, because we all think, act, behave, communicate, interact with others, have our habits, capabilities, values and identity.

Thus, it always looks so encompassing, when you read NLP brochures. But, here it is - what you will learn in the upcoming NLP Certified Practitioner Course in Kuala Lumpur in January 2007.

Interested to know more? Send me a mail to nlp AT asiaminddynamics.com

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During the Certified NLP Practitioner Training you learn to apply NLP in many different areas successfully:

Grow your career, or your business - NLP in Business – e.g.; Sales, management, communication, performance enhance. career development;

Your personal life – Communicating with others and create more rewarding relationships, become a better parent, learn easier and remember more

For A Healthier Life – the breaking of bad and installation of great habits

Personal Acceleration – empowerment and motivation at your fingertips
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In detail - what are you going away with:

What are the benefits and outcomes of this training?
Practical tools for your day-to-day life ….

• Learn how to set and achieve goals that really materialize
• Create instant rapport by communicating much more effectively with the people you meet
• Change your mindset, gain emotional mastery and access your inner personal strength and
capabilities —be at peak performance anytime you want
• Become aware of other people’s body language by increasing your understanding of sensory
indicators
• Learn how to communicate to the subconscious mind
• Be able to give and accept constructive feedback
• Understand the way other people think and act and be able to influence them positively
• Eliminate limited beliefs and generate new behaviors – see opportunities where before, there were
only problems
• Be able to identify and interrupt unwanted behaviour in yourself and others
• Get rid of those habits that you always wanted to get rid off – and help others to do so as well
• Resolve inner problems with great healing methods
• Get closer to your clients, friends and family – learn how they get motivated, make decisions and be
reassured
• Run meetings effectively, succeed in business negotiations, dramatically grow your sales, and
become a successful parent
• Learn how to coach others effectively and become a more effective leader
• Become more creative, innovative and powerful in your thinking and brainstorming skills by amazing
others with your lateral-, high level and specific thinking abilities
• Learn precision questions to get behind the meaning of words and sentences
• Learn hypnotic language patterns and how to apply them in your day-to-day life for greater success
• Be able to see varied perspectives from many different positions

And much, much more….

• In short … the training in NLP puts you in charge of your mind, body and therefore your life and your
destiny!

My personal aim is that you go away from this training knowing that this was the most amazing, and life changing training ever.

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NLP Certified Practitioner Course in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in January/ February 2007

Asia Mind Dynamics is organising a fast paced, fun loaden and success oriented Certified NLP Practitioner Course in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!!

Course Benefits can be found here

If you are interested in changing your life, and to make 2007 a year of personal and professional breakthrough then register immediately (nlp AT asiaminddynamics.com) and book your seat NOW:

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January 20 - 21, 2007

January 27-28 2007

February 3-4, 2007

February 10-11, 2007

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There will be not more than 15-20 participants in the training so that I personally can attend to all participants to help them succeed in the exercises.

My aim in this workshop is to assist participants such as you to get to know the magic of NLP, fully understand how it works and be able to apply it in all parts of your life - perfectly.

I developed staggered stages for the registration process:

1.) The investment for the Early Bird registration, which closes on December 31, 2005 is RM5,700*;

2.) The investment from January 1 onwards until training commences is RM6,300;

3.) When you bring a friend who also signs up for the training, the investment for you will remain at RM5,700 after December 31 while your friend has to invest RM6,300;

4.) Should both of you sign up before December 31, you qualify for RM5,200 and your friend for RM5,700*;

* These condition applies for full payments only!

Please be aware that we impose an administrative fee if you cancel your participation 1 week before the training to cover administrative and other occurring charges on our side.

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Rapport building - now watch this picture

A while ago I wrote that rapport building is matching and mirroring the other person in their physiology, tonality and the words they use.

I don't know how much has been said during the recent meeting between Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda, and Australian counterpart Alexander Downer before they signed the security agreement in Indonesia last Monday.

The pact signals closer ties between two countries that have experienced a long history of thorny relations and looking at the picture below, boy, I have to say that these two hit it off. Look how much they mirror each other and I really don't think that they do this purposely. Both tilting their head, both signing nearly simultanteously, and have the same facial expressions. Rapport can be so beautiful.




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Malaysia's ranking in the happiness survey - is being happy so difficult?

Adoh - what is that? A map of happiness? Produced by the Psychology Department of the University of Leicester, and Professor Adrian White, an Analytic Social Psychologist. And Malaysia is placed pretty well at rank 17 as one of the happiest nations?

The analysis is based on the findings of over 100 different studies around the world, which questioned 80,000 people worldwide. For this study data has also been analysed in relation to health, wealth and access to education.

There is, firstly, no clear indicator in the study of what makes people happy. One time, the article states that "the frustrations of modern life, and the anxieties of the age, seem to be much less significant compared to the health, financial and educational needs in other parts of the World."

Hm - what do I think? Personally, I think that the definition of happiness varies widely across the world.

From an NLP point of view, happiness is a State of Mind. And a State of Mind can be changed, almost immediately. Initially, and if you are a person that carries a lot of sadness, or similar emotions with you, happiness might only be short lived, until you clear up issues in your emotional life. But basically, to reach a happy state is easy.

What do you need to do?

in short (very short), all you need to do is a to do a two step process:

- Change your physiology. Stand upright, and look upward. How difficult is it to be sad when you look upwards. Related to it - smile. Smile, and even if it is a faked smile. Fake it till you break it. The moment you smile, neurochemicals are released from your brain into your body and the body reacts to it, sooner or later (probably sooner). And your State of Mind changes!!

- In addition, you just need to remember a time when you where happy (or any other State that you want). Remember a specific time, focus on the positive feelings. Then float into your body, see what saw, hear what your heard and feel the feeling of happiness rising in you. You can access positive states anytime, anywhere!This is standard NLP for anyone. Remember something you like and you are back into the same state (don't try it with states you don't like, hehe!).


Now - of course, this doesn't change the fact that there are some people out there that want to be unhappy. They chose to be unhappy, with everything, and curse and swear and point the finger at others as the cause of their unhappiness - the government, the boss, the driver on the road, the unfriendly service attendant, the blogger next door, whose opinion you don't share. But, again, that is THEIR choice. And again, you can chose to be unhappy or happy, whenever you want.

Try it out, as I explained above, or also here with the Circle of Excellence!

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The secret to success: Rapport building skills

Do you read self-help books? Do you find that there is often a description about building rapport but then, you don't quite know how this goes? Would you like to build better rapport with those around you, but don't know how?

There are also plenty of recruitment and interview skills handbooks out there, but I also find that they are not always helpful. Don't you agree? I understand that the intention of the authors is to help readers in search for good answers.

Still, the question still remains - how the heck do you build good rapport? Especially, since first impressions count. Today more so than ever in an increasingly competitive environment!

Rapport by Answers.com is defined as "Relationship, especially one of mutual trust or emotional affinity." How true is that - but does it help? Not really, right?

NLP talks differently about rapport, and states that rapport is not about a relationship - it leads to it - but that rapport is the instant connection with another person mostly on at the subconscious level. Just another definition, still not helpful.

Well, let me give you some numbers - people always communicate, in fact, you cannot NOT communicate. Everything in your appearance communicates. You body, your physiology, your skin colour changes (yes, they change constantly!!), your words and the way you say those.

There was a research done, a longer time back by someone called Birdwhistle or so (others say that there was someone starting with an M, who established the findings earlier), that states the following:

During a communication, what you communicate via words makes up only 7% of the total. In contrast, 38% of our communication with others is a result of the verbal behavior - tone of voice, timbre, tempo, and volume. Overwhelmingly, 55% of our communication with others is nonverbal communication, such as body posture, breathing, skin color and our movement. Figure that!!

Remember a time when you just knew that the person in front of you wasn't telling the truth or that is was a bad time to interupt the other person because he "looked so busy"!

True, what?

So rapport relates to matching and mirroring the other person in their physiology, tonality and the words they use. Do this consciously - match and mirror people, the moment you get into touch with them - but not in a way that is too obvious, because that would be mimicking!! And hey, it is not manipulative - look around you, and see, how people that converse sit in similar positions, stand just as if they were mirroring each other, how great they feel when you talk the same language (e.g.; see how guys link up with each other, when they talk about sport!!). For me, it is like a dance with each other. In harmony. The subconscious mind is picking up the signals and says "hey, this person is just like me, I like the person." Isn't this happening all around us?

What I have done here is giving you a short breakdown on what rapport building is about and how to do it. Try it out, over the next day or two. When I conduct the training during the NLP Practitioner course (in end-January), I will explain, in much more detail, how good rapport building is done, and what goes into it (NLP teaches you the process of how to do things). But the result is that it makes you more aware of how things are done, and in the end, it makes real practitioner more successful - in interview situations, meetings, negotiations, hey, even in discos and pubs. And that is what everybody wants to be in life, more successful, right now.

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Success story for NLP

How is that? I just found this entry from someone on the web:

The author wrote that she was a "recipient of an NLP intervention in early 2004. I used to live with constant depression, self-sabotage and chronic under-achievement. I had spent nearly 20 years working with different therapists, reading self-help books, and studying different psychological approaches to find a way to get myself healed and whole. It may sound surprising, but my intervention lasted all of 6 hours and I immediately became a different woman :: healed and whole.

That next week, I ended my ongoing therapist appointments. Within 3 months I moved into a new career making 500% more than before. And within 6 months I had learned enough about NLP on my own to start using the approach to ‘pay it forward’ and help others remove their own obstacles to success."

Hm - NLP works, right? What are you saying?

(Psst: When are you going to jumb onto NLP to accelerate your life? Asia Mind Dynamics is going to offer a NLP Practitioner course VERY soon - ready to rock and change your life?)

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Beautiful - hypnosis leads to weight loss

A North Texan Teen, 13 years of age, says something almost like "magic" helped her lose 70 pounds - and it is the magic of hypnosis. Before that, she only ate junk food.

Once again, a lot of our habits, if not all, are deeply burried in our subconscious mind. Without positively influencing this huge part of our mind, most of our conscious efforts to change behaviour can fail.

Learning, behavioural change and all needs to encompass both, the conscious and the unconscious level. And to change our habits, we have to change this deep structure inside our mind.

Thus, ask yourself, is hypnosis a way to overcome obesity? I believe it sure is.

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NLP trainer in Malaysia

Yesterday evening, I arrived back in Kuala Lumpur, from a 3 week training in Australia. Training by Tad and Adriana James to become a trainer of NLP and Timeline Therapy (TM) training myself.

Boy, its been an astonishing up and down over the last 3 weeks. There were about 40 participants in the training. Many from the UK, one from the US, some from Australia, even lesser from Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Accompanying the training were coaching assistants that were already schooled by Tad and Adriana and they observed the development of the individual participants.

And developing we did. From the very first beginning, and after being put into different groups, we were "subjected" to exercises, exercises, exercises. Feedback by the coaches and by one of the partipants.

What happened? I would describe it as breaking down my neural networks in my brain, putting it all into a mixer and let it re-develop and emerge in a beautiful and magnificent fashion.

How did we do? Well, considering that all of us were to become trainers, we had to learn how to present ourselves magically. How often is it happening in the "real world", the world we came from and had to present, that we move around wildly in front of our audiences, gesticulating with our hands and pacing around up and down. Does this sound familiar? All those gestures are kind of disturbing, and very often coming from somewhere deep down inside - because we feel we need to do it or were told that this is how to present. The worst case are those presenters, that start to scratch themselves, sway on their feet, or pace around like tigers in a cage. I know you know what I mean, right?

So, the first thing to learn in Australia was to get rid of those unsconscious behaviours. So - for the first 5 days or so, we were not allowed to move our hands when we did presentation exercises.

It started by standing in front of our 6 member group, about 1.5 meters away - don't say anything, don't move anything on your body, especially not the hands. For 5 long minutes. I tell you that these were the longest 5 minutes of my life!!!. Standing in front of people I didn't know. And not to go inside and think, but to also switch off the inner dialogue. Wow!! After about a minute or 2, I felt this feeling of extreme discomfort inside of me. Something kept growing, and I couldn't run away. This is what I mean by breaking down the existing neural network!

There was more. In another exercise, we learnt how to see from the corner of the eyes, when someone in a group makes a slight movement, even if it is only a finger. I had to point this out the moment I saw it, point out with a slight movement of my finger.

Then, also, standing in front of the group and make each of them feel that I connect with them through my eyes. The moment, they had the feeling of connection, the individual had to raise the hand and put the hand down, when the connection was lost. Target was to get all hands up at the same time!

We also learnt to create and develop metaphors, put an audience into trance, close metaphors, and to build rapport with a larger group of participants. This is important when I teach NLP to a larger number of people (what is my aim!).

Then, after 5 initial days, we learnt how to move our hands during a presentation more consciously, to bring a point across. And we learnt how to structure material that needs to be taught, how to structure exercises, answer questions in a way that the whole audience has something to learn and so on and so on.

All in all, I was re-created in a very special ways.

There were two presentations that all of us needed to do in preparation for the evaluation period. The first 2 were dry-runs, for the "big evaluation days". And these were tough challenges. I failed one of the presentations, like many others. It was devastating, initially, because hey - I thought I knew my stuff. Apparently, the evaluator didn't, and it was a great learning for me!

Then came the evaluation period - 4 days in a row. I felt like going back to high school or university.

First, a theoretical test about Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). About 80 questions, with 210 points to achieve in total. Passmark was 70%. I learnt and learn, studied real, real hard. Memorising, getting it into my head. Knowing my material backwards and forward. The day of the test was the day were I felt real good. No anxiety at all, just coolness and great anticipation. I normally felt anxiety, but not this time around, because of the beautiful Timeline Therapy (TM) techniques. It just helps to take out negative emotions, fear, anger, and all, as well as anxiety.

Still, 6 hours of writing in the test. 6 hours and about 60 pages - handwritten. This was one thing that was hard, because, hey - I usually use a computer, right? We didn't get to know our marks but most of us cam through the test. But this is no wonder, because all of us studied real hard for the test.

Then the first presentation - and I presented magically. No flaws, whatsoever!! Then, demonstration day - this means we were to demonstrate an exercise to a larger group of participants. I have to admit that here, I was nervous initially. This, despite visualisation of the whole process the night before. What happened? Well, I visualised my favourite exercise, but forgot to include the short theoretical introduction in the visualisation. naturally, there was a break, but I came through. The demonstration itself was smooth - great and exhilarating.

The next presentation then, the second and last was an easy right, since I was bursting with energy, joy and fun. Nothing was going to hold me back, and so I am here now, back in KL with two trainer certification. One for NLP, and one for Timeline Therapy (TM) Training.

For you, to share in my happiness about the successful completion, the picture below. It was a hard October, but it was worth every single minute of emotion, sweat, and long nights of learning, studying and preparations!

Here a picture from the graduation ceremony:




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